A study of ancient Earth suggests future hurricanes may bring catastrophic rainfall even when wind speeds appear weaker.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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A new international analysis of marine fossils shows that warming of the polar oceans during the Eocene, a greenhouse period that provides a glimpse of Earth's potential future climate, was greater ...

Learn about two major asteroid impacts from 3.5 million years ago that may not have had lasting environmental effects. Throughout Earth’s history, the planet has been struck by multiple asteroids, ...

Our current rate of warming will quickly lead us back to a climate that predates the evolution of modern humans, according to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That ...

Weathering of silicate rock is a key component of the long-term carbon cycle. Previous studies demonstrated that incongruent chemical weathering of fresh silicate material produces weathering ...

Asteroid impacts have changed Earth’s landscape time and time again. Some impacts caused great change to occur, like the Chicxulub Impactor, which led to the mass extinction of dinosaurs around 65 ...